#Cilia

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Ciliary Pathlines

For tiny creatures, swimming through water requires techniques very different than ours. Many, like this sea urchin larva, use hair-like cilia that they beat to push fluid near their bodies. The flows generated this way are beautiful and complex. (Image credit: B. Shrestha et al.) Read the full article

[bpod-bpod]

Behind the Wave

Computer model of a 'carpet' of beating cilia – the whisker-like structures on many body cell types that sense or waft – reveals the mechanism of their synchronisation. Watch the emergence of a metachronal wave (a Mexican wave is one of these)

Read the published research paper here

Video adapted from work by David J. Hickey, Ramin Golestanian and Andrej Vilfan

Department of Living Matter Physics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), September 2023

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[koishiarts]

idk if genderswapping is still cringe or not, but I watched fionna and cake a few weeks ago and one thing led to another...

[marshmallowloves]

"I…got lost. On our trip. Caught up looking at the local flora while you and the others kept going… They even told me they were moving on, but… Ha… What a stupid way for me to get separated…" "Careless, maybe… But I can't say I fault you entirely for it. In fact, I'm surprised that the same didn't happen to me. You and I were both so curious…"

I am. somewhat weirdly hesitant about posting this here dkfjgf. but *spongebob voice* well. here you go.

[cmlotus]

Cheese Main Ridge Cilia

[lucytimm]

Cheese Main Ridge Cilia

[embracethepixels]

Smelling Pixels: The Emergence of Scent as a Game Mechanic

My very first post as a blogger. Have you ever played a video game and wondered what the level smells like? Probably not, but if you have, then XR tech is here to demonstrate.

[iriskelley]

Cheese Main Ridge Cilia

[orientalrecipes]

Cheese Main Ridge Cilia

[tenth-sentence]

Their shape is oval, and contracted in the middle by a ring of vibrating curved ciliæ.

"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin

[bpod-bpod]

Equipped to Smell

Regulation by a transcription factor called Foxj1 underlies the molecular signals for development and differentiation of olfactory receptor neurons and their hair-like non-motile cilia vital for a vertebrate's sense of smell

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Dheeraj Rayamajhi, Mert Ege and Kirill Ukhanov, and colleagues

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore and Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in PLOS Biology, January 2024

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[sanriosratz]

lucy faceclaim

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cilla faceclaim

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ooo! they’re both very pretty!!

Lucy faceclaim | Cilia faceclaim

[ezravogel-artfeed]

Cilia and Alfaeya Collection

[montereybayaquarium]

Comb on over and sea the magnificent bloody belly comb jelly!

A denizen of the deep, the bloody belly’s dark red coloration keeps it camouflaged from predators in the depths, where red light disappears and red-colored animals are nearly invisible.

[presidentcircles-assistant]

what if it was all just a bad dream and vincent and equilateris safely got to the north together and nothing bad happened ever. The end

[ID: A digital drawing in red of two original Flatland characters, Vincent and Equilateris.

Vincent is a circle with markings that consist of a ring around his sides with two protrusions on either side that curve inward towards his center to form a point, then curve back out. He has three pairs of two cilia around his eye, around the middle of his perimeter, and near the end of his perimeter. He has a beak along his side.

Equilateris is an equilateral with markings on his two bottom angles that consist of two inward curving lines that meet at a point. He has three pairs of two cilia around his eye, in the middles of his sides, and on his two bottom angles. He has a beak at his top angle.

Vincent is pressed against Equilateris' top angle, and both their beaks are curved into smiles. They are in the middle of a square with the bottom side missing to represent a bed.

End ID.]